Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student who plans a vacation in Europe but doesn't yet know how he's getting there, the best course is to run right down to the nearest travel agency. After a few weeks' wait, and with the aid of considerable luck, he'll probably get the plane or steamship reservation he wants--for the summer of 1955, that...
...wartime profits from a "ships' supply firm which was operating with Government sanction and with Government priorities." Hensel answered with the hottest blast against McCarthy by any Administration official to date, calling the charges "barefaced lies." As an inactive partner of a firm doing business with private steamship companies, not the Government. Hensel declared that he had done nothing illegal or unethical. McCarthy, he said, "is cornered and is attempting a diversionary move...
...growers' cooperative, and also has 1,600 acres in groves of his own. In the state's growing cattle business, the biggest force is Florida's Lykes family, headed by John Wall Lykes (66) and nephew Charles (37). The Lykeses who also own the Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., largest shipper under the U.S. flag (54 cargo ships operating out of Gulf ports), have recently started to concentrate on concentrates. They control Dade City's $15 million Pasco citrus-processing plant, biggest in the state, which in 24 hours can turn out enough fruit products...
...legation on Valentine's Day 1949, dancing and crying "Long live Israel." After 15 years of Fascist pogroms and four more of Communist misery, the exhilarating dream of the promised land had suddenly become a reality. Thousands sold their last belongings to buy fantastically priced exit permits and steamship tickets, bade goodbye to their children and set forth to Israel, empty-handed but hopeful. By the end of 1951, when the Reds suddenly ordered a stop to emigration, 120,000 of Rumania's 350,000 Jews (the largest Jewish community in any satellite) had poured through Haifa into...
...fervent apostle of Theodore Roosevelt's philosophy of living life up to the hilt, has never numbered love of airplanes among his enthusiasms. When he left his home in Cuba (and his 25 cats) last year to revisit Africa after a lapse of two decades, he traveled by steamship. To reach a base camp on the rolling plains of British East Africa, the husky author and his fourth wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway, bumped painfully through rough country by truck...